Gael Rakotondrabe graduated from the Bill Evans Piano Academy in Paris. He won the Boesendorfer Montreux Jazz Solo Piano Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival (2008).

Member since 10 years of the group CocoRosie, for which he arranged and co-composed CocoRosie’s albums Grey Oceans (2010) and Tales of a Grass Widow (2013), he is also the pianist of Antony & the Johnsons (Anohni) since 2012.

Musical director on Robert Wilson’s play, The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic (2010-2013), Composer for movies programmed in Cannes and Sundance, he has been featured on many albums and special projects with such luminaries as David Byrne, Loris Gréaud, Devendra Banhart, Nadia Lauro, Yasmine Hamdan, Willem Dafoe, Gaspard Yurkievich, Riccardo Tisci.

He is currently touring with Hugh Coltman to present the album Shadows, Songs of Nat King Cole (2014-2016), and he is working on his first solo album.